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Database displays?

Hi All,

I'm not really an expert in CAPI, but I get by. For something totally new to me, and probably old hat to most of you, I need to display line items from a small database, have them editable, and add / delete entire lines. My database skills are just fine for this, but I'm wondering how you all would use CAPI to display this kind of data?

Up to now I have an interface with big bulky sub-dialogs, displayed inline, for each data line. Seems like I should be able to just show the text, and when clicked on, it could bring up the mini-dialog for data entry like always before.

I know that Apple has a kind of grid display, like a spreadsheet. But I can't find anything similar in CAPI. Suggestions?

Dr. David McClain
dbm@refined-audiometrics.com



Re: Database displays?

I haven't done this myself, but the first places I'd look are:

ystok grid http://lisp.ystok.ru/ygrid/

and examples/capi/elements/{grid,grid-impl}.lisp

(I once had the latter figured out enough to use it in a simple way, I 
might be able to find the code - ask me)

pt

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